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Shin’en known before launch as UNITEC-1 or UNISEC Technology Experiment Carrier 1 is a Japanese student spacecraft which was intended to make a flyby of Venus in order to study the effects of interplanetary spaceflight on spacecraft computers. In doing so it was intended to become the first student-built spacecraft to operate beyond geocentric orbit. It was operated by UNISEC a collaboration between several Japanese universities.Contact was lost shortly after launch.